Bio
Katie is an Employment Associate.
Katie advises on all aspects of employment law including employment tribunal litigation, disciplinary and grievance matters, senior exits, day-to-day HR queries and redundancy exercises.
Alongside her work for companies, Katie has acted for some individuals on sensitive and emotive employment situations, including where employees are suffering from mental health issues.
Katie is experienced in defending complex employment tribunal claims, alongside employment-related data protection matters, and regularly supports clients in managing complex and high-volume subject access requests.
Katie also supports on acquisitions and disposals including due diligence, reviewing employment provisions in the corporate documents, drafting settlement agreements, service agreements and consultancy agreements and TUPE advice.
Examples of Katie’s work include:
- Securing the swift settlement of a complex employment tribunal claim involving worker status and associative discrimination.
- Preparing and delivering a bespoke suite of training sessions on a variety of employment topics including sexual harassment training to the senior leadership team.
- Assisting a partner with a sensitive maternity and pregnancy discrimination grievance, subsequent tribunal claim from a senior employee, and the reaching of an agreeable settlement for the client.
- Supporting a large corporate with a mass settlement agreement programme within a tight timeframe.
- Securing an unexpected and highly favourable settlement for a client company in a complex, multi-faceted discrimination claim involving a difficult litigant in person at judicial mediation.